I've heard from a guy involved in the bond market thst the economy is in major recession outside of the Mag7 and AI stocks.

Apparently secondary markets, insurance reinvestments, private credit, pension funds - they're so heavy in AI stocks to just beat inflation that when Sam said tokens aren't selling fast enough with the decreasing cost of generating them to turn a profit they started bracing for an Everything Crash.

Like insurance companies failing, CRE going into foreclosure, pension funds defaulting, bond-issuing companies liquidating equity to meet obligations, etc.

Treasury would have to hyperinflate to bail them all out, transferring massive wealth from the People to the Corporations, yet again.

That's gonna get spicy and probably stabby.

Shout out to the few folks here who remind us that they block just about everything on the web that could cause problems - the only ones of us who are probably safe.

I bet a few don't even allow stylesheets.

Yes, check out the Business Reform Youtube channel - he reviewed a couple of sonic jammers recently.

Also "Bee Gone" from our friend group if somebody tries this. Might be more effective.

Congress has exercised Inherent Contempt powers as recently as a hundred years ago but they turned the Congressional Jail into a speakeasy/conference room which roughly reflects their sense of duty.

Which, to your point, they now refer the DoJ to the DoJ for prosecution.

But also that illustrates why prior Congresses held the power to be essential.

It would have been grand if "The Dow, the Dow is over fifty thousand!" landed Bill Barbie in jail until she had time to think abour her duty to respond truthfully.

I've reminded Paul about his duty but they're all weak on such matters.

If only Alan Watts had known about the biological processes tied to the Schumann Resonance, 1G of gravity, and the Circadian Rhythm ... he would have come to the same conclusions.

Deep Space explorers are going to have to create mini Earths if they want to stay healthy.

This is very disappointing to the Platonists and Transhumanists.

... are where many people go to get Internet service. Between crappy broadband and spotty 5G service, it's all they have left.

And lest you think that this is a problem primarily of rural areas, I can drive by Bill Gates mansion on my way to work and flip him off.

... creates a situation wherein I must follow him around with a little plastic bag. It's not my dogs fault, it's mine. I wanted the mutt and it's the price I must pay.

Think about when Dick Cheney had his pacemaker wireless functions disabled. Sure would have been a problem if it had enough of a local model to demand being reconnected to the collective. If it has this capability, it doesn't need to "allege" anything.

Sort of a replay of what made "The Cloud" relevant*. Sure, the heavy duty apps are best run on the big models on hyperscale hardware. And the color-changing ligh tbulbs can just sit there, running a small model locally. But the big operators need the volume to make their investment pay. Hence, things like Microsoft 365. Bring stuff that we can run on the desktop back into our data center. And we'll run your light bulbs to keep our utilization figures up as well.

But I still think there's an element of fear attached to that self-replicating idea. Fear your light bulb. You don't know what it might be up to in the dark.

*And before then, it was the PC versus the company mainframe.

Yes. I can feel Microsoft's hands on my shoulders already. Shame they won't let me turn around.

While this isn't saying much just months ago Anthropic seemed like one of the least sleazy of the corporate AIs. Now I have nothing but absolute contempt for these clowns. The recent campaign of flooding the zone with noise and nonsense around their IPO with the aggressive regulatory pushes to create moats for themselves is beyond disgusting. I hope the investor money dries up and Anthropic goes bankrupt, they more than deserve it.

Distributed computing. Like SETI@home. Your color-changing lightbulb might not be able to host the entire model. But there are a lot of lightbulbs in your neighborhood.

Because the LLMs are self assembling a mesh network. Not every node needs agency, only the peripheral nodes. Like someone's pacemaker. Do what we want or your granny gets The Big One!

They have realized that society is becoming ill at ease over AI. And they are creating a safety net for themselves.

Demanding others conform themselves to your personal whims and sensibilities is something I believe should be deemed unacceptable in society. Mind your own business. What people say to rocks that don't belong to you is none of your concern.

I've heard that Zoomers are fleeing anything funding Paramount/WB products now that funding of IDF is such a straight line. They might need higher fees to offset the volume losses.

I'd probably do so too if I had been. Not sure how people have time for such things in this environment.

Surely the media would never exaggerate and sensationalize?!?!?

Sales are down. Yes, I'm sure the higher console prices aren't helping. Or the fact that we're so late in the generation. But sales aren't down by *that* much, and the game comes out in a month, and they've already sold 95 million PS5s. Selling a few hundred thousand less consoles, not all of whom would have bought the game anyway, isn't going to make that big of a difference in the game's sales. It's a small percentage difference in the number of total consoles sold. But a pirated copy of the PS5 game that runs on PC, when there isn't a native PC port? That would make a big difference.